[Assam] Book: Learning from Lincoln: Gore Vidal

[umesh sharma]

Hi,

I found a tattered, yellowed book under a payphone at Los Angeles airport as I was about to come to Washington DC. Here was this book (Lincoln by Gore Vidal) left lovingly, it seemed , by someone who did not want to trash it. I read 10 chapters on the plane and also while taking the train ride home http://www.amazon.com/Lincoln-Novel-Gore-Vidal/dp/0375708766

Lincoln is arriving in Washington DC (in the second page of the book) as President-elect, in a city carved out of Maryland, a Southern state. Talks are on about shifting the US capital from DC to Pennsylvania - if Maryland and Virginia leave the Union . DC itself is not yet the polished city, it now is. But has all the intrigues on reads in the current newspapers including DC Madams.

A very different perspective on Lincoln  - who is also a character in the story (fictional account) and speaks for himself - unlike Lincoln The Unknown, wrtitten by Dale Carnegie , which I read  when at  college, trying  to improve my personality.

Any comments on Lincoln?
 
Umesh Sharma


(I also did a crossword -spotting words - on US presidents, thanks to my fellow passenger, Ashley, who is a fashion-photographer/undergraduate student returning from LA after working there in a fashion company)


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